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I was in bed, and I got the script and I was reading it, and I said, 'Man, this is really good, there's no way I'll get hired for this!'


James Gandolfini

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JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic...
JAMES BLACK 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
JAMES MONTGOMERY Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and br...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.
JAMES COMEY But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER